Everything happens for a reason. Today in AP Lang, Ms. Ruiz was describing how she had a student who thoroughly disagreed with this statement very passionately. Well I am a student who very passionately believes this. Throughout the course of my life, I’ve been through a lot. I’ve met a lot of people and I’ve lost a lot of people. I thoroughly believe that all of this happens for a reason. I cannot say I believe that your life's fate is planned out, I cannot say I believe in God’s plan. But your experiences are something that you always need to take with you. Everything is a lesson. When you’re born you are by definition innocent. And with innocence comes ignorance, and with ignorance comes the opportunity to learn. Every action you take in your life has a consequence and generally you learn from these consequences for better or worse. These experiences make up who you are. Everyone has to learn simple things like the fact that lying and stealing are wrong but you also have to learn what's right as well as what you enjoy. The actions you take have the biggest impact on who you become even if you think something is insignificant, every choice you’ve made has led to you reading this blog right now. Every step you take in life is creating the person you are working towards becoming, even if you're not quite sure what that is yet. Your steps lead you closer to your passion, your lessons, your consequences. You’re becoming who you are and in order to do so everything MUST happen for you to become this version of yourself. So yes, everything does happen for a reason. Maybe not according to a laid out plan. But everything that happens makes up everything we are, everything we see, everything we experience. And there's always a reason for the things around us that happen, even if they teach us different lessons than what we were expecting.
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Hi Morgan,
ReplyDeleteI found your blog very informative, and you described your perspective really well. While I don't agree nor disagree that everything has a reason, I do feel like everything presents the opportunity to be for a reason. That sounds confusing but I didn't know how else to put it. Depending on your mindset, everything does have the opportunity to be a lesson, whether or not it was in your control. This is a really good and convincing argument about your perspective, especially coming from someone who's in the middle. Really good writing and argument!
Hi Morgan!
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree with your point of view. Looking at my life, like anyone else’s it would be a lot different if certain things had happened differently or if certain things hadn’t happened at all. For example, my family was going to move at one point into another school district so I could go to Vanden. Our offer was declined so I ended up staying in the VUSD school district and going to Wood. If that offer hadn’t been declined, I probably wouldn’t be doing theater at my current theater company or friends with the people that I am now. It’s some what of an interesting thing to think about sometimes.